**Donald Trump Faces Possible Opposition from Late Activist Charlie Kirk’s Coalition Ahead of 2025 Election**
*Published: December 30, 2025, 5:48 p.m. ET*
Donald Trump could have one major opponent standing in his way of an unprecedented third term, RadarOnline.com can report — late activist Charlie Kirk.
Followers of the slain conservative activist and his influential Turning Point USA coalition are reportedly planning to circumvent the current president and throw their support behind Vice President JD Vance — who hasn’t even announced whether he is running yet.
### Turning on Trump
According to reports, members of Turning Point USA plan to focus efforts in Iowa, the first major contest of the United States presidential primary season, to help build and strengthen support for the vice president, a former senator from neighboring Ohio.
While Trump teases a possible run for a third term, Turning Point USA aims to make that decision for him by pushing Vance, who has already earned the key endorsement from Kirk’s wife, Erika.
Whether Trump could actually mount another campaign is a separate matter.
### Historical Context: Presidential Term Limits
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was not only elected to a third but also a fourth term in office after promising to bring stability to the nation during the Great Depression and World War II. Roosevelt died just three months into his fourth term, in April 1945.
Two years later, Congress argued that term limits were necessary to prevent abuse of power and passed the 22nd Amendment, which officially limits presidents to two terms.
### So You’re Saying There’s a Chance?
However, if rules are made to be broken, leave it to Trump to challenge them. Lawyer and constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz recently told the president that the Constitution isn’t exactly “clear” on the issue of term limits.
Dershowitz, who previously served as a defense lawyer for Trump during his first term, explores the debate in his upcoming book, *Could President Trump Constitutionally Serve a Third Term?*
The author told the *Wall Street Journal* that his book lays out a host of scenarios in which an individual could serve a third term, a possibility he personally conveyed to Trump.
“I said, ‘It’s not clear if a president can become a third-term president, and it’s not clear if it’s permissible,’” Dershowitz said, adding that Trump found the possibility “interesting as an intellectual issue.”
### Loopholes to the Presidency
Dershowitz clarified that he doesn’t think Trump will run again. But if he does, here’s how he could remain in control:
If Trump ran and was declared the winner of another election, the members of the Electoral College could abstain from voting when they meet to cast their ballots. Once they abstain, Dershowitz argues, the election would be decided by Congress.
“They then select, and not elect, the president,” Dershowitz summarized.
However, according to the National Constitution Center, only twice in U.S. history have electors abstained from voting for their pledged presidential candidate, and neither of those instances led to Congress stepping in to decide the outcome.
### The Pathway to Presidential Power
Yet, James Sample, a professor at Hofstra University’s law school, said there could be an even simpler way to keep Trump in power.
“The one scenario about which I think there is quasi-credible concern is a scenario in which two allies—perhaps JD Vance and Donald Trump Jr. or whomever—run with a plan not to serve,” Sample told the *Journal.*
If a “President Vance” and “Vice President Don Jr.” suddenly decide they don’t want their offices, the line of succession would make the Speaker of the House the new president. As Sample points out, “the speaker is not required to be a member of Congress.”
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**Tags:** Donald Trump, JD Vance, Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, 2025 Election, Presidential Term Limits, Alan Dershowitz, U.S. Politics
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